How true, how true. St Lawrence is a harsh teacher, and it will serve you alot of humble pie before it will show you the love. However, once you fall for The River, you will not love anything as much again.
It has been 48 yrs with this season coming, if the good Lord blesses me with the days and bass on the line.
My first wife, God rest her soul, invited me up fishing at her grandpa's cottage one summer, and it has been my summers ever since. She is gone, but I still have The River to remember and thank her by.